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The Communist Party of India(Marxist) accused the Union authorities of weakening the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and undermining the livelihood rights of the agrarian poor.
The CPI(M) Eluru territory secretariat subordinate K. Srinivas alleged that the Centre efficaciously scrapped the MGNREGA Act, 2005, and replaced it with a caller instrumentality titled Viksit Bharat - Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Act, 2025, thereby abolishing the ineligible close to enactment and depriving the mediocre of their basal livelihood.
Addressing a run programme organised by the enactment successful Mandavalli colony connected Monday arsenic portion of its State-wide agitation to support the employment warrant scheme, Srinivas said that the caller instrumentality was wholly anti-poor and anti-rural. He criticised the Centre for converting employment from a legally guaranteed close into a government-sponsored payment scheme, which helium termed arsenic a regressive step.
Though the authorities claims to person accrued the fig of workdays to 125, Mr. Srinivas alleged that the existent employment days person declined owed to reduced fund allocations. He said the Centre allocated ₹1.20 lakh crore successful 2020-21, but chopped allocations to lone ₹86,000 crore successful 2024-25 and 2025-26.
Warning that the concern would worsen erstwhile employment was nary longer a ineligible right, Mr. Srinivas said the caller instrumentality has removed provisions specified arsenic unemployment allowance and workers’ close to request work. He demanded that the MGNREGA beryllium implemented successful its archetypal signifier without dilution.
Agricultural labourers and workers participated successful the programme.
